Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Boleynanollag, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boleynanollag
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.02618, -8.34911
- SMR number
- GA132-035----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. Named 'Well' in Roman script on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16), this spring well, dedicated to St Anne, consists of a pear-shaped well surround delimited by a stream to the N and rock outcrop to the S. The circular well chamber (diam. 1m) is enclosed by a mortared stone wall. Access is via three steps at W. There is a large modern beehive-shaped stone grotto containing a statue of St Anne immediately to its E. The well is still used as a place of devotion. A children's burial ground (GA132-036----) lies c. 8m to the E. This record was incorrectly numbered GA132-027001- in the RMP (1997).
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 4 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Country houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.